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Jan 15, 2021 · Octavia Butler walked a singular path. A writer from her poverty-stricken childhood to her death in 2006 at the age of 58, she committed her life to turning speculative fiction into a home for ...
- VISIONS: IDENTITY; 'We Tend to Do the Right Thing When We Get Scared'
Octavia Butler, whose books meld science fiction with...
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The Visions of Octavia Butler. As a science fiction writer,...
- VISIONS: IDENTITY; 'We Tend to Do the Right Thing When We Get Scared'
Jan 7, 2024 · Jan 7, 2024. 5:51 AM. Octavia Butler was born in 1947 in Pasadena, California. From a young age, her mother encouraged her love of stories and writing, from buying her a typewriter in her childhood to using money for surgery to support her writing. Inspired by racial segregation and the prevalence of the white male protagonist in science ...
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Jun 22, 2022 · Octavia E. Butler poses in a Seattle bookstore in 2004. ... My book project was born out of a project I started in graduate school that was interested in how Black speculative writers in the 20th ...
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Nov 17, 2022 · The Visions of Octavia Butler. As a science fiction writer, Butler forged a new path and envisioned bold possibilities. On the eve of a major revival of her work, this is the story of how she came ...
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Feb 18, 2021 · Octavia Butler's alternate realities and 'speculative fiction' reveal striking, and often devastating parallels to the world we live in today. She was a deep observer of the human condition ...
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Jul 10, 2017 · Octavia Butler used to say she remembers exactly when she decided to become a science fiction writer. She was 9 years old and saw a 1954 B-movie called Devil Girl from Mars, and two things struck ...
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Jan 12, 2024 · The author of imaginative and often disturbing speculative fiction such as Parable of the Sower (1993), she was a Black woman descended from enslaved people in Louisiana, raised by a strictly ...